- Digital Progress and Trends Report 2025: Strengthening AI Foundations
Report · 23 November 2025
This report provides a comprehensive, data-driven snapshot of the global AI landscape. It highlights a stark divide: Most innovations remain concentrated in high-income countries. Yet, a promising…
- Governing with Artificial Intelligence: The State of Play and Way Forward in Core Government Functions
Report · 17 September 2025
AI offers tremendous potential in its use by governments. It helps governments automate and tailor public services, improve decision-making, detect fraud, and enrich civil servants’ work and…
- Data for Better Governance: Building Government Analytics Ecosystems in Latin America and the Caribbean
Report, Case study · 24 November 2024
Governments in Latin America and the Caribbean face significant development challenges, including insufficient economic growth, inflation, and institutional weaknesses. Overcoming these issues…
- Digital Leaders Spotlight: Somalia
Strategy, Case study · 28 September 2024
Somalia is advancing its digital government ambitions despite being an emerging state with limited e-government infrastructure. Through the Multi-Donor Action Initiative for Digital Government and…
- Memo: Improving the teacher workforce
Report · 9 December 2016
This research memo, addressed to the U.S. presidency, outlines strategic recommendations for improving the national teacher workforce, emphasizing that teachers are the most critical school-based…
- Personalized learning: The importance of teachers in a technology-driven world
Report · 26 September 2017
In a technology-driven educational landscape, the role of the teacher is shifting from the sole keeper of knowledge to a critical guide in a personalized learning environment. While one-to-one…
- ConnectED Could be a Game Changer for Technology in Schools
Report · 27 August 2014
The ConnectED initiative, launched by the Obama administration, represents a strategic public-private partnership designed to modernize the American education system through the integration of…
- Next generation standardized tests face major technical barriers
Report · 14 April 2015
This report evaluates the technical and administrative hurdles encountered by U.S. school districts during the transition to internet-based standardized testing. While moving away from antiquated…
- Development Seminar | No free lunch: Using technology to improve the efficacy of school feeding programmes
Event · 27 July 2018
This Brookings Development Seminar highlighted how technology can significantly improve the effectiveness of school feeding programmes in developing countries, using evidence from India’s Mid-Day…
- Education World Forum: Similarities in Technology—from Sri Lanka to Sweden
Blog · 7 February 2013
This report analyzes the global landscape of educational technology (EdTech) following the 10th annual Education World Forum, where ministers representing 77 percent of the world’s learners gathered…
- Pushing education forward with education technology standards
Report · 5 February 2016
This commentary analyzes the 2016 National Education Technology Plan issued by the U.S. Department of Education and the implementation challenges it faces. The author notes that despite the ubiquity…
- Foresight Africa viewpoint – Can technology help leapfrog education in Africa?
Report · 23 January 2018
The article addresses the critical education gap in sub-Saharan Africa, where only 8 percent of children in low-income countries are on track to master basic secondary skills. The authors present a…
- New frontiers in technology for assessment in low-income contexts
Report · 2 August 2017
Traditional education assessments often fail to capture the breadth of 21st-century skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving. This report argues that technology offers a…
- Using data and technology to enhance classroom teaching
Report · 9 February 2018
As digital environments become the standard for professional and social life, the definition of literacy has expanded to include "digital reading"—the ability to process text while navigating complex…
- To make ed tech work, set clear goals, review the evidence, and pilot before you scale
Report · 9 September 2020
For decades, the promise that technology would "disrupt" and revolutionize education has often fallen short, with many large-scale initiatives yielding only modest effects on student achievement.…
- How has education technology impacted student learning in India during COVID-19?
Report · 22 August 2021
The disruption of education in India during the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly exacerbated existing inequalities, particularly among primary and secondary school students. This report, focusing…
- State Education Technology Policy Update
Report · 4 August 2014
As state legislatures across the United States conclude their sessions, a clear trend has emerged regarding the rapid expansion and formalization of virtual education. Using data from the National…
- How ed-tech can help leapfrog progress in education
Report · 20 November 2019
The research brief titled Leapfrogging in Education explores the transformative role of technology in accelerating global educational progress. Prepared by the Center for Universal Education at the…
- How education technology can improve learning for all students
Report, Podcast · 10 September 2020
New research from the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at Brookings finds that technology’s impact on learning and teaching has been limited, especially in low- and middle-income countries…
- Digital public technology can help drive sustainable development progress
Blog · 14 June 2022
Digital technology is receiving growing attention in international dialogues on global prosperity and stability. In August 2021, the G-20 digital ministers identified ways digitalization can enhance…
- Can digital technology education improve gender equality in ICT careers in Kenya?
Blog · 28 August 2022
Around 10 years ago, multimillion-dollar information communication technology (ICT) companies like Lyft, Pinterest, Slack, and Uber were nonexistent. Today, certain aspects within the industry have…